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Monthly Archives: January 2012

photo by Sakarri on Flickr Tomorrow, the Minnesota House Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee will hold a hearing regarding HF 1856. This bill concerns the hunting and trapping of wolves in Minnesota, an issue th…

President Gary Shaver Answering Questions from the Crowd As part of the Rural Minnesota Solar Initiative, the Northeast Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) hosted a tour of the new Silicon Energy solar PV manufacturing facility in Mt. Iron. The ed…

Minnesotans gathered outside of the Environmental Protection Agency office in Duluth on Wednesday to thank the agency for issuing strong new mercury pollution safeguards. They presented a large thank you card signed by local Duluthians and a banne…

Sierra Club Applauds President Obama for Rejecting the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Today, the Obama Administration determined that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest and announced that it will formally deny a fed…

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson visited the University of Minnesota on Tuesday for a conversation with Professor Deborah Swackhamer with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.The discussion highlighted the EPA’s new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards…

The race to be the largest solar project in the state continues with Ikea surpassing the Minneapolis Convention Center’s current lead by nearly doubling the size of the PV system they are going to install at the Bloomington store to 1.1 MW! Betwee…

Xcel Energy’s Metro Emissions Reduction Project which repowered Riverside (Minneapolis) and High Bridge (St. Paul) was a major contribution to the state’s reduced dependence on coal. Despite lack of inaction by Congress and international treaties …

Guest Blog by: Rachel Collins, Junior at DeLaSalle High School and Sierra Club North Star Chapter Diversity Council Intern As a child, I remember going to Wolf Ridge near Lake Itasca where I kayaked with my family for three days getting away from …

This years Sierra Club’s Solstice party was groovin’ and movin’ to the sound of the High School for Recording Arts’ Get your Green Crew’s amazing rap music on how we are going to clean up our air, stop our dependance on fossil fuels, and create gr…

The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a wilderness in the metro area back yard, once again has an event using light rail, Sunday, Jan. 8, 1:30 – 3:00pm. It’s called “Going Wild: Rail to Refuge”, and shows people how to reach two units of …